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The Uigeadail is named after the Loch from which the distillery takes its water for production and means ‘dark, mysterious place’. You pronounce it ‘OOG-a-dal’. It was matured on both bourbon and sher…

Nose: it shares the same elements as the 2009 edition: oily peat, pepper, tobacco and a touch of citrus and apple. There are bigger notes of graphite and phenols / gouache paint in the 2009 edition. On…

Nose, Taste, Finish and Balance are graded out of 2.5 each:Nose: Well, before we even open the bottle, we know that we're dealing with one of the oldest names in Speyside aristocracy, so much so that it…

I tasted the 2010 twice now, it is very young and overly soapy. Like the Blasda but with peat - or like a combination of: a) the first Supernova release b) Rollercoaster (which I like quite a bit) c) a…

According to the official website of this independent bottler, you must pronounce Wemyss as ‘weems’, which is an old Scottish word for caves. There is also a Wemyss castle where a historic family of the…

After the blended malt Smooth Gentleman, I immediately tried this Weymiss Toffee Apples. This is not a blended malt, but a single cask of a well-known distillery. Weymiss doesn’t put the name of the…

Caol Ila is the largest distillery on the island of Islay, situated on the coast with a nice view of Jura on the other side of the Sound of Islay. The warehouses, three levels high, are filled with the…

I had a miniature of this L0 Ardbeg 10, compared to later batches it had a slight acidity (milk acidity)

Keywords : fruity, earthy, peaty, woody, bitter, waterBalance : Very GoodFinish : Medium-Long, intense

Port Askaig is a town (and a port) on the island of Islay (on the north west), and is also the name of yet another ‘Mystery Dram’ bottled by the Whisky Exchange. The range of Port Askaig bottlings con…